Genetic variation of temperature-regulated curd induction in cauliflower: Elucidation of floral transition by genome-wide association mapping and gene expression analysis

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 6, Issue September, 2015, Pages

  Matschegewski, Claudia ^a   Zetzsche, Holger ^b   Hasan, Yaser ^c   Leibeguth, Lena ^a   Briggs, William ^d   Ordon, Frank ^b   Uptmoor, Ralf ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^d JEALOTT S HILL RESEARCH STATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cauliflower; Curd induction; Genome wide association study (GWAS); Linkage disequilibrium (LD); Quantitative trait loci (QTL); Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP); Transcriptional profiling; Vernalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942929780     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00720     Document Type: Article

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